Last week we lost a comedy legend in Fred Willard. Paste looks back at his best roles, from Christopher Guest's movies, to his many sitcom and sketch show appearances.
. Willard was the only human cast member, playing a bartender at a D.C. lounge where puppet versions of politicians, celebrities and other pop culture figures would regularly pop in. Willard always played his characters so straight that they could easily serve as both straight man and comic relief, and that skill shines inChristopher Guest’s Mockumentaries
More than anything else, Willard will be remembered for his roles in Christopher Guest’s improvised films. They were the purest distillation of Willard’s signature charm, that combination of absolute confidence and limited intelligence that can best be summed up as “doofy.” The typical Willard character is a big ol’ lovable doofus, and that’s basically what he played in all of Guest’s films.
, where he played the uptight, WASPy father-in-law to Brad Garrett’s character. The main reason to seek out Willard’s episodes is to see him play off another actor with a massive personality, Peter Boyle, who played Garrett’s father. The clash of Willard’s Protestant decorum and Boyle’s Italian brazenness would’ve felt hackneyed if it wasn’t brought to life by two such superlative performers.
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